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By Barry Mason
Reports from aid agencies show that many areas in Africa are currently facing drought and threat of famine. In East Africa some 11 million people are suffering a drought that is the worst in a decade and will mean that food aid is urgently needed over the next six months. The countries affected stretch from the Horn of Africa through to Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique.
The January bulletin produced by the USAID Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS) warned of a (...)read more, comments...

A global food price crisis, a global food crisis, now threatens billions of people in the Developng World with famine and starvation.
This catastrophe is being driven by the greed of Western countries for the profits from biofuel and carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution .
The resource-greedy, racist and genocidal UK, EU, Australia (Oz) and US are threatening much of the world with Climate Genocide and with Food Genocide.
In British-ruled India during the Second World War about 6-7 million (...)read more, comments...

The Future of Food: What Every Person Should Know with Deborah Garcia
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover 57 mn 46 s - 21 nov. 2006 www.mslaw.edu
What should every person know about the food they ingest. The documentary "The Future of Food" changed the way we think about food(and continues to do so) by answering this very question.
But, just how has food actually changed? Do we need to worry about genetically modified foods? What about artificial foods? Learn all this more as (...)read more, comments...

Germany: The Melander family of Bargteheide
Food expenditure for one week: 375.39 Euros or $500.07 :
United States: The Revis family of North Carolina (Sure hope most American families eat more fresh fruits and vegetables and less junk food than this family.)
Food expenditure for one week $341.98 :
Italy: The Manzo family of Sicily
Food expenditure for one week: 214.36 Euros or $260.11 :
Mexico: The Casales family of Cuernavaca
Food expenditure for one week: 1,862.78 Mexican Pesos (...)read more, comments...

GlobalResearch
Review of F. William Engdahl’s "Seeds of Destruction"
by Stephen Lendman
Part II
William Engdahl’s book is a diabolical account of how four Anglo-American agribusiness giants plan world domination by patenting life forms to gain worldwide control of our food supply and our lives. This review is in three in-depth parts. Part I was published and is available on this web site. Part II follows below.
Washington Launches the GMO Revolution
The roots of the story (...)read more, comments...

A breed of Frankenfood is being introduced into human diet and cosmetics with potentially disastrous consequences, experts said last night.Academics, consumer groups and Government officials are warning that the arrival of nanotechnology threatens dangerous changes to the body and the environment.
The particles it uses are so small - 80,000 times thinner than a human hair - that they can pass through membranes protecting the brain or babies in the womb.
Nano health supplements, such as (...)read more, comments...

BLACKLISTSNEWS, December 17, 2007.
Reprint from International Herald Tribune
ROME:
In an "unforeseen and unprecedented" shift, the world food supply is dwindling rapidly and food prices are soaring to historic levels, the top food and agriculture official of the United Nations warned Monday.
The changes created "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food," particularly in the developing world, said Jacques Diouf, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization.
The (...)read more, comments...

Global food crisis looms as climate change and fuel shortages bite
Soaring crop prices and demand for biofuels raise fears of political instability John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian Saturday November 3 2007
Empty shelves in Caracas. Food riots in West Bengal and Mexico. Warnings of hunger in Jamaica, Nepal, the Philippines and sub-Saharan Africa. Soaring prices for basic foods are beginning to lead to political instability, with governments being forced to step in to (...)read more, comments...

Western consumption may cause famines By Anita Purcell-Sjoelund in Sweden
July 01, 2007 11:06pm
FOOD production in developing countries will halve in the next 20 years unless wealthy nations lower their rate of consumption, a research group has warned.
The livelihoods of more than three billion people in the world are being undermined by the wealth of the privileged few, said the director of the Stockholm Environment Institute, Johan Rockstroem.
"The risk is that we might halve... food (...)read more, comments...

Inter Press Service News Agency Friday, June 15, 2007 19:09 GMT
CUBA-VENEZUELA: Making Biofuels Without Wasting Food
Patricia Grogg
HAVANA, Mar 6 (IPS) - The governments of Cuba and Venezuela are planning to move forward together on biofuels production, but they will rely on producing alcohol from sugarcane, in order to spare food crops. Official Cuban sources described the cooperative alcohol programme between the two countries as part of their "joint efforts" to protect the (...)read more, comments...

USA Disses UN Human Food Rights
United Nations, Nov 18 (Prensa Latina) The government of President George W. Bush shamed the United States into international isolation after it rejected a UN resolution defending the human right to food.
After a week of UN debates on humanitarian affairs, US diplomats were the only ones to vote against a resolution supporting the Right to Food.
The related text was sponsored by an unusual majority of 131 countries, and another 44 UN member states (...)read more, comments...

Iraq is Having a Humanitarian Crisis! - What We Must Do
The situation in Iraq is a full blown humanitarian crisis. Water and food supplies are either foul or insufficient. Lack of sanitation has produced an environment that supports disease. The people suffer from cold, heat, lack of light, clean water and food. Their medical system is in desperate need of medical supplies and clean, safe facilities. Since the US invasion, 3 1/2 years ago, they have lived the trauma of a 9/11 (...)read more, comments...

Friends of the Earth Friends of the Earth has taken the first step in mounting a legal challenge to the UK Food Standards Agency for its failure to take appropriate action to prevent illegal GM rice from being sold to the public. The challenge coincides with the discovery, by the environmental campaign group, of GM-contaminated rice in two types of own-brand rice sold by British supermarket, Morrisons [1].
Friends of the Earth sent a number of rice samples for testing after it was (...)read more, comments...

Worldwide Annual Anti McDonald’s Day Oct 15
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http://www.vegancampaigns.org.uk
http://www.mcspotlight.org
http://www.pcrm.org
http://www.meatout.org
Chicken’s Head found in fast food order
11/30/2000
WVEC.com This fried chicken’s head was discovered in an order of chicken wings. A customer at a McDonald’s restaurant in Newport News got more than she bargained for when she received her order. Katherine Ortega said she found a fried (...)read more, comments...

Obesity identified as global epidemic
Sunday 03 September 2006, 7:31 Makka Time, 4:31 GMT
Exploding numbers of overweight children could make today’s generation the first to die before its parents, say health experts.
The warning comes as more than 2,500 experts and health officials gathered in Sydney on Sunday for the International Congress on Obesity to discuss what organisers said was one of the most important global health issues.
Professor Paul Zimmet, a diabetes expert (...)read more, comments...

Horse-Eating Foreigners Finding Friends In United States Congress By John Hanchette August 1, 2006
Olean - For a while, this newspaper was one of the lonely few covering the fervid national debate over horses and whether they are just livestock and food for foreigners, or something more respected and treasured in American culture. Now, reporters and columnists all over the country are weighing in on the issue, and Congress took up the matter last week.
As usual, Congress screwed it up (...)read more, comments...

Food For Thought US Language Police Want To Make English An “Official” Language-But What Would This Do To Our Restaurant Menus? By Walter Brasch July 5, 2006 Let’s pretend it’s dinner time, and you’ve just developed a sudden craving for Mexican food. Yesterday, it was Chinese. Tomorrow it may be Italian. But today, it’s Mexican.
And, while we’re pretending, let’s pretend that a four-star Mexican restaurant just opened around the corner. (...)read more, comments...

Food Uniformity Bill Passes in the House Despite Widespread Opposition Members of the House put special interests before public interest Despite opposition from many environmental, health and consumer rights organizations, 39 state Attorneys General, 7 state Governors, the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, the Association of Food and Drug Officials, the National Conference of State Legislators and the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, the United States House of (...)read more, comments...

Federal Food Policy & Organic Inconsistencies
by Joshua Frank - February 11, 2006
Healthy living has become the national obsession these past few decades. Awareness about food’s nutritional content is also on the rise — many health conscious Americans are concerned with the quality and content of the food they are scarfing down every day.
As these interests have grown, so has the organic food movement. Organics, as the general definition puts it, are products that are not (...)read more, comments...

By Nathalie Funès
"The world was deaf."
A month after the G-8 conference that promoted aid to Africa to first priority ranking, children are dying of hunger in a country cited as an example for its democratic efforts. As of October 2004, the catastrophe was foreseeable. But in the face of the emergency, rich countries, NGOs, and local authorities have competed in impotence.
The livestock eat too much sand. There aren’t enough roots, stems, leaves. Every morning, 38-year-old Harouna (...)read more, comments...

The far-right in Ukraine are acting as the vanguard of a protest movement that is being reported as pro-democracy. The situation on the ground is not as simple as pro-EU and trade versus pro-Putin and Russian hegemony in the region.
When US Senator John McCain dined with Ukraine’s opposition leaders in December, he shared a table and later a stage with the leader of the extreme far-right Svoboda party Oleh Tyahnybok.
This is Oleh Tyahnybok, he has claimed a "Moscow-Jewish mafia" (...)

Your support here: http://www.peaceinsyria.org/support.php
We, the undersigned, who are part of an international civil society increasingly worried about the awful bloodshed of the Syrian people, are supporting a political initiative based on the results of a fact-finding mission which some of our colleagues undertook to Beirut and Damascus in September 2012. This initiative consists in calling for a delegation of highranking personalities and public figures to go to Syria in order to (...)

At first glance, the results of America’s 2012 election appear to be a triumph for social, racial, and economic justice and progress in the United States: California voters passed a proposition requiring the rich to shoulder their fair share of the tax burden; Two states, Colorado and Washington, legalized the recreational use of marijuana, while Massachusetts approved the use of marijuana for medical purposes; Washington and two other states, Maine and Maryland, legalized same-sex (...)

In a 2004 episode of Comedy Central’s animated series South Park, an election was held to determine whether the new mascot for the town’s elementary school would be a “giant douche” or a “turd sandwich.” Confronted with these two equally unpalatable choices, one child, Stan Marsh, refused to vote at all, which resulted in his ostracization and subsequent banishment from the town.
Although this satirical vulgarity was intended as a commentary on the two (...)

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If there is one major inconsistency in life, it is that young people who know little more than family, friends and school are suddenly, at the age of eighteen, supposed to decide what they want to do for the rest of their lives. Unfortunately, because of their limited life experiences, the illusions they have about certain occupations do not always comport to the realities.
I discovered this the first time I went to college. About a year into my studies, I (...)

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Disillusioned with the machinations of so-called “traditional” colleges, I became an adjunct instructor at several “for-profit” colleges.
Thanks largely to the power and pervasiveness of the Internet, “for-profit” colleges (hereinafter for-profits) have become a growing phenomenon in America. They have also been the subject of much political debate and the focus of a Frontline special entitled College Inc.
Unlike traditional (...)

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Several years ago, a young lady came into the college where I was teaching to inquire about a full-time instructor’s position in the sociology department. She was advised that only adjunct positions were available. Her response was, “No thanks. Once an adjunct, always an adjunct.”
Her words still echo in my mind.
Even as colleges and universities raise their tuition costs, they are relying more and more on adjunct instructors. Adjuncts are (...)

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When The Bill of Rights was added to the United States Constitution over two hundred years ago, Americans were blessed with many rights considered to be “fundamental.” One conspicuously missing, however, was the right to an education.
This was not surprising given the tenor of the times. America was primarily an agrarian culture, and education, especially higher education, was viewed as a privilege reserved for the children of the rich and (...)

If there is one universal question that haunts all human beings at some point in their lives, it is, “Why do we die?”
Death, after all, is the great illogic. It ultimately claims all, the rich and the poor, the mighty and the small, the good and the evil. Death also has the capability to make most human pursuits—such as the quest for wealth, fame and power—vacuous and fleeting.
Given this reality, I have often wondered why so many people are still willing to (...)

How much corruption can a “democracy” endure before it ceases to be a democracy?
If five venal, mendacious, duplicitous, amoral, biased and (dare I say it) satanic Supreme Court “justices”—John Roberts, Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Anthony Kennedy—have their way, America will soon find out.
In several previous articles for Pravda.Ru, I have consistently warned how the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision is one of the (...)

Imagine, if you will, that the United States government passes a law banning advertisers from sponsoring commercials on Rush Limbaugh’s radio show or Rupert Murdoch’s Fox (Faux) “News” Network.
On one hand, there would be two decided advantages to this ban: The National IQ would undoubtedly increase several percentage points, and manipulative pseudo-journalists would no longer be able to appeal to the basest instincts in human nature for ratings and profit while (...)

LIVE, from the State that brought you Senator Joseph McCarthy, Wisconsin voters now proudly present, fresh from his recall election victory, Governor Scott Walker!
At first glance, it is almost unfathomable that anyone with a modicum of intelligence would have voted to retain Scott Walker as Wisconsin’s governor. This, after all, is a man who openly declared he is trying to destroy the rights of workers through a “divide and conquer” strategy; who received 61% of the (...)

A question I’ve frequently been asked since I began writing for Pravda.Ru in 2003 is, “Why did you become disillusioned with the practice of law?”
This question is understandable, particularly since, in most people’s minds, being an attorney is synonymous with wealth and political power.
I’ve always been reluctant to answer this question for fear it will discourage conscientious and ethical people from pursuing careers in the legal profession—a (...)